In response to India’s first T20 loss, Jadeja said, “Things went wrong throughout that innings. I feel for Rohit Sharma.”
In response to India’s first T20 loss, Jadeja said, “Things went wrong throughout that innings. I feel for Rohit Sharma.” Australia won the first game of their three-game T20I series in India. They did this by chasing down a massive target of 209 with four balls left. India’s score of 208/6 was their highest against Australia in this format. However, Axar Patel was the only one who really gave the world champions’ batters trouble.
Ajay Jadeja, who used to bat for India, said it’s hard to find a specific moment in Australia’s turn when the hosts lost the game. “I am trying to think of a situation where India had a chance, except for when Axar Patel was bowling. And he also didn’t bowl at a stretch. Except for those overs, there was no problem that Australia had. They didn’t even have to take any chances,” he said.
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Cameron Green’s 61 runs off 30 balls helped Australia take control of the first 10 overs of the chase. Umesh Yadav and Axar took a few quick wickets to stop the flow of runs for a while, but then Matthew Wade came in and won the game for Australia.
“India carried on with the plans that they had when they took those wickets and it just didn’t work. It’s really difficult to figure out where did we go wrong because throughout that innings, we went wrong. There is no one stage I can pick and say something could have been done differently,” said Jadeja.
“At the start maybe I would have pointed out bowling Axar Patel (as the problem) because the ball was seaming but he ended up with the best figures. He looked like he was playing a different game to the others. Chahal has had a few games where things haven’t gone his way. I feel for Rohit Sharma, everything he did was right but Australia had an answer for everything.”
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